Indore Development Authority decides to reduce size of scheme No. 171

INDORE: Indore Development Authority (IDA) on Monday decided to exempt four housing societies from its scheme No. 171. After the decision, the size of the scheme will be reduced to nearly 200 hectare from its initial size of 252 hectare.
The societies that have been excluded from scheme No. 171 are Baba Farid Nagar, Haji Colony, Maruti Gruha Nirman Shahkari Sanshtha and Sai Krupa Shahkari Sanshtha.
“Construction was being done even before the announcement of scheme No. 132 that was later converted into scheme No. 171 in these colonies, which are approved by the town & country planning (T&CP).
Thus the board has decided not to displace families from their houses by exempting these four societies from the scheme,” said CEO of IDA, Chandramouli Shukla.
However, eight other societies with approved layout from T&CP will continue to be part of the scheme as no construction or development work was done on their land. He added that the decision has been taken on the basis of the survey, which was carried out by an expert team and it had prepared a report after conducting a direct verification.
The area, which has been exempted from the scheme, has 5,139 houses constructed near Khajarana area. The eight housing societies that will continue to be part of the scheme have 7000-8000 plots registered and no constructions have been made.
“IDA will try to give priorities, at the time of land allotment, to people with registries. However, the authority will charge development charge for allotment of land,” said Shukla adding that IDA will approach the government to make some relaxation in the rule for giving priorities to people with registry.
Meanwhile, IDA has asked Indore Municipal Corporation to regularise the colonies, which have been exempted from the scheme.
The IDA has been trying to complete scheme No. 171 for many years. First, scheme No. 132 was announced but due to non-completion, the scheme lapsed and IDA re-launched the scheme as scheme No. 171. This time also, it received around 1,000 objections as it had land of around 12 housing societies.